Program of Events for “Women and the Word”

Medieval Women, Books and Art: Thursday, January 29, 2004, 4:00-5:30pm
Cortelyou Commons

Sandra Hindman, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

Ann Roberts, Department of Art History, Lake Forest College: “Religious Women, Reading and Rules”

Susan Solway, Department of Art History, Barat College of DePaul University: Comment


Saint Birgitta of Sweden: Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 4:00-5:30pm
Cortelyou Commons

Rosalynn Voaden, Department of English, Arizona State University: "Birgitta of Sweden: Writing the Woman, Writing the Word”

Claire Sahlin, Department of Women’s Studies, Texas Woman's University: "Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy"

Anne Clark Bartlett, Department of English, DePaul University: Comment


Medieval Literature and Literacy: Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 4:00-5:30pm
Cortelyou Commons

Paul Griffiths, Chair, Catholic Studies, UIC: “The Treasure-House of Memory: Learning Without Literacy from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages”

Bill Fahrenbach, Chair, Department of English, DePaul University: “Vernacular Literacy in a Fifteenth-Century Miscellany: BL MS Cotton Caligula A.II”

Karen Scott, Department of History, and Director, Catholic Studies Program, DePaul University: Comment